So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 1

, #1

eBook, 256 pages

Published Nov. 21, 2017 by Yen Press.

ISBN:
978-0-316-44292-3
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4 stars

This is a very niche reading. For starters, it's a light novel aka the written word version of a manga. Then it's author chose to portray the actual gameplay of certain RPG games... player and monster statistics included. Pages and pages of numbers representing the status, abilities and skills of either the protagonist or her foes. Add to these that the original was a Japanese "novel" in the same sense that Wattpad has "novels"; and the fact that it's translation uses the present tense all the time, and you'll get the picture: this is just for entertainment. A palate cleanser between "heavy" books.
Having said that, if you are the right kind of geek, it is very good entertainment!

reviewed So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 1 by Okina Baba (So I'm a Spider, So What?, #1)

Reborn as a spider

4 stars

The protagonist, having apparently died in some supernatural event while sitting in Classical Literature class, wakes to find herself trapped in an egg. Freeing herself, she learns that she is a spider, and soon she finds that she is in a fantasy world, with levels and skills and all the trappings of an RPG.

So she does the natural thing, and exploits the system as much as possible in order to grow stronger–the weak, she has seen, are doomed to be eaten.

Interspersed with the spider's story is the story are scenes featuring Shunsuke Yamada, who has been reborn as Schlain Zagan Analeit, called Shun, and Kanata Ooshima, who has been reborn as Karnatia Seri Anabald, called Katia. The former is a prince and the latter the daughter of a duke. These scenes are set a decade or so in, while the spider's scenes begin, one assumes, begin as soon …

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